Quotes About Self-awareness

Still though, I think if you're not self-obsessed, you're probably boring.

Once a year, she remembers that she is insignificant. Then she forgets agains, because more than she is insignificant, she is forgetful.

Identity always precedes behavior. What you need is someone to come alongside you and help you remember who you are and to whom you belong.

What goes on around you … compares little with what goes on inside you. —Ralph Waldo Emerson

Watch your thoughts, for they become words. Watch your words, for they become actions. Watch your actions, for they become habits. Watch your habits, for they become your character. Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.

Development is not about learning how to counsel but about becoming the kind of person who can counsel.

He must not laugh at his own wheeze. A snuff box has no right to sneeze.

You are what you eat. Which makes me cheap, quick, and easy.

We will also do better when we can recognize the worry thoughts as signs of nervousness and anxiety, the same as an eye twitch or sweaty palms, rather than some important message about the future

Admission to the school of self-inquiry is dependent rather on our motivation, willingness, and effort to explore the inner dimensions of our being.

You will never receive healing for your damaged emotions until you stop blaming everyone else and accept your responsibility. 3. Ask yourself if you want to be healed. This is what Jesus asked the sick man who had lain ill for thirty-eight years (see John 5:6). Do you really want to be healed, or do you just want to talk about your problem? Do

Everything happens for a reason. Sometimes that reason is you're stupid and make bad choices.

You can fool everyone else, but you can't fool your own mind.

Everything you've told yourself you ought to do, your mind thinks you should do right now. Frankly, as soon add you have two things to do stored in your RAM, you've generated personal failure, because you can't do two things at the same time. This produces an all-pervasive stress factor whose source can't be pin-pointed.

Anything that causes you to overreact or underreact can control you, and often does.

The self is an oral society in which the present is constantly running a dialogue with the past and the future inside of one skin.

Vipassana involves genuinely looking at who and what you are, actually seeing the real self instead of the one we imagine ourselves to be. It means facing every fear, every unsated desire, every area where we just don't know a part of ourselves, and then releasing any claim on them. It's been shown to be effective in treating depression, anxiety, panic, just about every emotional disorder there is, and it does so by removing the importance of our emotions from our lives.

She had long been aware that her organic being produced all the physical expressions of emotion, while she herself felt nothing. It was a paradox.

It's the same old conundrum. You couldn't ask questions about self-awareness until you became self-aware, but you couldn't become self-aware until you were able to grasp the concept of self-awareness.

Curiosity—actual curiosity—was one of the hallmarks of sentience and self-awareness

Only one who is self-aware can question her own self-awareness.

There's a part of me that knows that I'll never die. There's a part of me that knows better.

Many people] plunge into all sorts of detail about what they want to accomplish, what investment they should buy, and where they want to be, without fist making sure they know where they stand now.

For a long time, I used to think that I had a man's brain that I thought more like a man than a woman. But now I've come to realise that whatever it is I do think like, it's not like men; because men don't really think like men, they think like boys.